Molly MaguiresThe band of coal miners known as the Molly Maguires led one of the first labor uprisings in the United States. Irish immigrants took it upon themselves to combat their own mistreatment by the coal companies. Their story is legend in the coal region.

A new edition by Shenandoah native Dr. Thomas Barrett, son of Tom Barrett Sr., author of the acclaimed first edition.
"The Final Chapter" brings to closure a violent time in anthracite mining history. On January 12, 1979, one hundred years and thirty-five days after Jack Kehoe was hung, the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, after full and public hearings, recommended, with written reasons that the arrests and trials were ridden with perjury, false accusations and unbelievable miscarriages of justice all condoned by the politicians of the era, that the pardon of John Kehoe be granted accordingly (posthumously).